Vehicle wheel-tire.



B. C. SWIN'EHART. VEHICLE-WHEEL TIRE. APPLICATION FILED s mwho, '1911.

Patnted Mar. .26, 1912.

BENJAMIN o. SWINEHART, orYoUNos'rowN, 01110,

VEHICLE WHEEL-TIRE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1 Patented-Mai. 26,1912.

Application filed September 9, 1911. Serial No. 648,548.'

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN CLIrronD SWINEHART, a citizen of the United States. residing at Youngstown, in the county of 5 Mahoning and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Vehicle ll heel-Tires, of which the following is 'a specification. I

This invention relates to improvements in elastic tires for vehicles and the object thereof is to provide improved means for stiifening and strengthening the base portions thereof.

My invention contemplates the provision of an elastic tire-for use on vehicle wheels, having incorporatedin the base thereof a plurality of spaced transversely extendingbars or wires, with the ends of the bars terminating in bodies-of material 'of the same general nature as the body of the tire but of a' character which when vulcanizcd will be harder than the balance of the tire,so that ends of the bars are rigidly anchored against movementto prevent the ends from wearing the elastic soft rubber of thetire. This is usually accomplished by forming hard rubber strips either in or along the lateral faces of the tire; base into which the ends of the transverse bars project and are embedded, 80 whereby the ends of the bars are covered and iiiclosed by a hard unyielding wear-re sisting medium. which readily adheres to them during vulcanization and which inturn securely attaches itself to the main body of the tire. Inuse it is contemplated that the tire will be seated in a laterally contractible rim for squeezing the basc'ofjt-he tire after the seating thereof in order to hold the ends of the cross bars firmly embedded 40in the hard rubber.

.By this construction the central portions of the bars -are" inclosedv and submerged in the interposed softjresilient' rubber of the tire, and the latter is permitted to move or distort under a load in following the well known rule that the rubber along the trans verse central portions of 'a vehicle tire, moves or is distorted under service conditions to a considerably greater extent *than are the portions which lie adjacent to the rim flanges. y

With-the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts constituting the invention to be here 'nafter specifically described and. illustrated I draw the in the accompanying'drawings which'form a part hereof wherein is shown the preferred embodiment of the invention, but it is-to be understood that changes, variations and modifications can be resorted to which come within the scopeof the claim hereunto ap- I pended. p Y

Thedrawing presented is a view in 'transverse section of the rim portion of a vehicle wheel, showing a tire embodying myinventionin operative'relation therewith. v Referring to the drawing indetail, the reference numeral 1 denotes thefellybfa vehicle wheel on which is mounted theusual [T folly-band 2. Secured to the lateral faces; of the felly 1 by'bolts 3 are a pair of flanges 4, having their outer portions formed with laterally inturned hook shaped clencher flanges 5 for holding tire detachably in 7 position on the felly band 2, and simultaneously squeezing or distorting the base thereof as thelnuts onthe bolts are rotated to flanges 3-inwardly toward each other.. r

Mounted on the folly-band 2 and held in placeby the rim fingers 5 is an elastic tire comprising a tread 6 of any preferred 0011-. structionanda base 7 shaped to seat in the rim form'ed to receive it and comprising the '85,? band 2' andflange's 5. The sides of thebase of the tire are formedwith lateral beads 8 of a vulcanizable compound which when; cured will becomeharder and less resilient than the balance of the tireand intimately united therewith during the vulcanizing process so as to. form when finished a uni-'- tary tire having a soft resilient tread and body, with lateral hard rubber beads along the sides of the base portion. In order to stiffen and strengthen the base.

of the tire there is incorporated in the base of the tire a series of spaced transversely arranged bars or wires 9 extending from't-he hard rubber bead on one silie through the soft rubber body to the head on the opposite side, with the ends of the bars-terminating in the hard rubber and wholly inclosed thereby so that there will preferably exist a thin stratum of hard rubber between 'the,

ends of the bars and the outer'surface of the base of the tire. The positioning of the ends of the herein the hard rubber serves 'to.

fixedly anchor them against movement while permitting the soft rubber center of the tire to yield or be distorted under service conditions and as the hard rubber unites with soft rubber much more securely than it would with the metallic bars, the latter are thus held more firmly, and produce little'or no wear on. the soft rubber when in use and do not out, grind or tear themselves free from their surroundings as has frequently been found to be the case Where the bars are Wholly inclosed in soft rubber.

In practice'the base of the tire is covered with one or more layers 10 of fabric to prevent wearing the tire when mounted in the rim.

I claim:

An elastic tire having a tread and base of relatively soft .rubber, bodies of hard rubber incorporated in and forming parts of the laterIal portions, of, said base, said bodies of hard rubber: Qbeing eompletely separated from each other by the interposed body of soft rubber, and a series of bars arranged in spaced relation and extending transversely ofthe base of the tire and with their ends terminating' in and inclosed by the hard rubber of said bodies, whereby said ends are held against movement during the movement or the distortion of the interposed soft rubber portion of the base through which said bars extend.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

Witnesses:

C. E. H MPHREY, J. A. SWINEHART. 

